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Then people rejoiced because they had voluntarily given because of an entire heart they had offered free to the Lord. David the King is also greatly rejoiced. I Chronicles 29: 9 (The Israel Bible ™)
1,949-year-old coin found at the Emek Zurim Screening Project. (Credit: City of David Archive)
A rare coin struck 1,949 years ago was found last week in a search of the City of David in Jerusalem.
Reut Vilf of the City of David Foundation says the coin, discovered in the sewage system that runs under the ancient Jerusalem, dates back to the year 69 CE, the fourth year of the revolt Jewish against Rome and the year the rebels despaired.
According to Israeli media reports, a cache of bronze pieces dating from this era was found in 2014 in a village near Jerusalem and others were dug up in a cave by the Temple Mount in 2018 , from the second and fourth years of the rebellion.
The piece found last week bears an inscription in ancient Hebrew letters that read "For the redemption of Zion" and a representation of a chalice.
His other side represents the "Four Species" used in the Sukkot festival – the branches of citron, palm and myrtle and willow – and the words "Year Four", referring to the last year of rebellion against the Romans.
"The coin was found exactly in the same place that the Jews were hiding in the drainage channel under the street," Vilf noted. Evidences of the rebels' attempt to hide under the city include intact oil lamps and ceramic pots that were found whole in the sewer itself.
Interpreting the inscription on the play, she said: "Freedom is an immediate thing, while redemption is a process, which could testify to their understanding that the end was near."
Eli Shukron, an archaeologist from the Israel Antiquities Authority, said that in all likelihood the room could have fallen into the drainage system through cracks in the paved road.
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